September & October in Review

It's hard to believe that the year is almost over already, but here we are in November. As I've done four times now, I've made an index and summary of my posts from the last two months. Here are my posts from September:

• July & August in Review: An index of my 22 posts from July and August 2011
• The Problem of Poorly Communicated Salvation: God could make clearer criteria
• Powerful Thoughts, Vol. 2: Another group of quotes on religion, science & more
• Deflating the Supernatural: Examining an extraordinary and unsupported claim
• Letter to a Christian Nation: Nothing new, but still a deft critique of religion
• A Time for Remembrance: The root cause of 9/11: violent, dogmatic belief
• The Death of the Soul: Philosophy, bio. & neuroscience demolish this dated idea
• My Pro-Christian Bias: I'm still investigating it long after I'd reject other religions
• Homophobia in the Bible: Being gay is called immoral & worthy of death and hell
• How to Destroy Naturalism in 4 Easy Steps: Witnesses, records, evidence, tests
• Quotable Me, Vol. 2: More of my thoughts on Christianity, religion and skepticism
• God Doesn't Care About Free Will: Based on the Bible and the observable world
• The Secret's Out: My sister discovers I'm an atheist; things turn out okay

And from October:

• The Worst of YouTube: 3 videos that showcase Christianity at its most obnoxious
• The Best of YouTube: 3 videos that both inform and encourage skepticism
• Those Pesky Craters: Why they're totally incompatible w/ young earth creationism
• The Bible for Skeptics: Verses backing skepticism imply unbelief is reasonable
• Yahwism: An Anachronistic Curiosity: Summarizing Christianity like an outsider
• Talking It Out: Discussing the implications of my atheism with my sister
• Men Like Trees Walking: In one Markan passage, Jesus makes an odd mistake
• Against Omphalos: Why "God only made the universe look old" is a bad idea
• Jesus in an Alternate Universe: What if he valued skepticism over faith?
• A Tale of Three Centurions: The gospels' centurion story is rife w/ contradictions
• Judgment Day 2: Judge Harder: Aftermath of Camping's latest failed prediction
• Detecting Intelligent Design: 4 examples show that it's harder than it looks

Several pieces of good news from these past couple of months. First, I managed to write a few pretty substantive essays, like these three. I also saw a huge uptick in traffic when John Loftus linked to my essay Why Believers Think Prayer Works from his Debunking Christianity blog. And finally, my sister found out quite accidentally that I'm an atheist, and I was pleasantly surprised at her accepting attitude.

Unfortunately I haven't had time to get very far with the two books I've been reading. I hope to dig into them more deeply before 2011 is out.